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The site, DLH.net, that provides news, reviews, cheat codes, and boards, was breached on July 31 by an unnamed hacker. While the name of the hacker is not known, it is speculated that it is the same hacker responsible for an earlier compromise of a Dota 2 forum that resulted in the theft of nearly two million user accounts record. According to breach notification site LeakedSource.com, that received a copy of the stolen database, says the DLH....

Last weekend, a user on GitHub claimed to have obtained the source for AMD’s Navi 10, Navi 21 and Arden GPU devices, where the latter is slated to be used in the upcoming Xbox Series X video game console. AMD has filed at least two DMCA notices against GitHub repos that contained the stolen source code and have forced the development platform to remove the files for violating the chip maker’s copyrights....

As many as 200,000 websites use Magento e-commerce platform, which is owned by eBay. The security companies have warned the owners and webmasters using Magento’s e-commerce platform to ensure they’re using its latest software. Check Point, which found the flaw, reported it to Magento, which issued a patch (SUPEE-5344) on Feb. 9. Since Check Point revealed the flaw earlier this week, it appears attackers have picked up on it and are trying to find unpatched applications....

The leaked information includes customer’s details such as credit card number, expiration dates, 3-digit card verification value (CVV) number, cardholder’s name, associated bank name, card type, physical address, email address, Social Security number, phone number, according to a report by BleepingComputer. This free data dump of 1,221,551 credit/debit cards can be used by threat actors to carry out phishing campaigns, financial fraud, and even identity theft. While most of the credit cards belonged to users from the United States, the remaining belonged to users from Australia, Brazil, China, India, Italy, Mexico, Spain, Turkey, and the United Kingdom....

Bitdefender analysts recently uncovered a series of attacks that leverage office tools and image-editing software cracks to compromise computers, hijack crypto-currency wallets, and exfiltrate information via the TOR network. “Once executed, the crack drops an instance of ncat.exe (a legitimate tool to send raw data over the network) as well as a TOR proxy,” said Bitdefender’s Bogdan Botezatu, Director of Threat Research and Reporting and Security Researcher Eduard Budaca in a blog post....

This year another hacking group Phantom Squad has promise to do something similar and spoil gamers holidays. They announced on Twitter that they will take down the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live for Christmas. For the past week, hacker group Phantom Squad has been issuing threats to knock out both systems’ online services with distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. “We are going to shut down Xbox live and PSN this year on Christmas....

However, now there is a new open source project to get iMessage up and running on your Android smartphones. It isn’t easy, and it’s only partially functional at present. This is not an official application from Apple, so don’t get too excited just yet. Dubbed as PieMessage, it enables cross-platform iMessage support that allows Android users to communicate using Apple’s iPhone messaging platform. The PieMessage project was put together by GitHub user Eric Chee, the app developer, and to complete it you’ll need a Mac and an Android phone....

Home Depot Breach is Officially the Largest Breach on RecordThe Home Depot Discloure This record breach has the breaks the previous breaking the previous record of the record for the largest retail card breach went to TJX, which lost some 45.6 million cards. The next in line for making to this unwanted list is Target breach which is supposed to have leaked 40 million debit and credit card number. The Target breach lasted roughly three weeks, but it exposed some 40 million debit and credit cards because hackers switched on their card-stealing malware during the busiest shopping season of the year....

Sometimes the advice is appropriate. It doesn’t hurt to clear the cache once in a while on your web browser. It takes a few seconds, and most of the time, it fixes issues with the webpages you are trying to view. Moreover, people also prefer clearing complete browsing data including history, cache, and cookies for privacy reasons. What is Browser Cache and why was it created? Browser developers designed cache with the assumption that – Your Internet is slow....

This profile option allows each user connected to a Netflix account to have a personalized feed and save their watches without being tampered with by other users. You can even set a pin on these Netflix profiles. As a means of recognizing your profile, an avatar is assigned to each profile available on a Netflix account, along with a name. Thankfully, this profile picture can be changed to the other option within the Netflix avatars....

Don’t worry! In this article, we will show how you can skip this prompt and auto end the tasks without any prompts on your Windows system. Here’s how you can shutdown Windows 10 without getting “Shutdown Anyway” or “Restart Anyway” prompts on your screen: Step 1: Open registry editor. Press Win + R to open Run dialog. Type regedit and press Enter key. Step 2: In registry editor, navigate to this key: HKEY_USERS....

Which Apps made the cut? The 49 banned apps are mere clones of the already banned Chinese apps such as CamScan Advance, TikTok Lite. Therefore, there is no immediate reason for users to panic who are in the middle of transitioning to the alternatives of Chinese apps. Which Apps made the cut?The Development While there is no clear mentioning of which apps were banned, we have tried compiling a list of apps known so far using various online reports....

The hackers announced on Facebook that the hack has nothing to do with the Cyber war between India and Pakistan However the message on deface page blamed Indian Army for wrongdoings in Kashmir which seems to be similar to toeing the official Pakistani Government claim. Looking at the India’s point of view on the Military posting in Kashmir Indian Government says Military posting in Kashmir is to protect Kashmir from being terrorized by terrorists and attacks from Pakistan....

YiSpecter, as the malware was named, has mostly affected users in China and Taiwan through four different methods. Users can be infected with the malware with the help of the Lingdun worm. This work which works via the QQ social network and its file sharing interface, can target a wide variety of device types. Malicious HTML files with pornographic names are uploaded by the worm, which are then shared with other users in the network....

The AOD functionality is widely available on almost all modern Android devices. According to Gurman, the feature will be “exclusive” to Apple’s upcoming iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max models. Apple is working on rolling out the AOD feature with the latest iteration of the iPhone’s operating system, iOS 16. For the unversed, AOD is a smartphone feature that continues to show basic information such as the time, date, notifications, missed calls, and more while the phone is asleep....

Apple would have not thought of following the embarrassment that Samsung had gone through last year when several incidences of Galaxy Note 7 exploding due to faulty batteries were reported. In case of iPhone 8 Plus too, faulty or damaged batteries are suspected to be the reason behind the devices to crack open. One victim in question is Ms. Wu, who had recently purchased her gold 64GB iPhone 8 Plus, and had reportedly been in use for five days, reported the Taiwanese media....

The ticket booking website for Indian Railways has been hacked and the personal data of around 1 million passengers are feared to have been stolen from the server of the e-ticketing portal Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC). IRCTC is India’s largest e-commerce website, lakhs of transactions are conducted every day. Customers provide details like Pan Card numbers and address while filling up online reservation forms which could be stolen by the hackers....

However, unlike its competitors, CDKeys doesn’t have joysticks, skins, in-game currencies, and software in its niche. They came about the time when digital copies of popular games took off. They started with PC game keys and, later on, expanded to include Xbox Live, PSN, Nintendo Games, and gift cards for Steam and iTunes. The keys work fine just like other keys from their competitors. You need to sign up, select the product you like to purchase, pay for the same, and wait for the keys to be sent via email....

According to the BBF, there are several data models you can use with the consumer-premise equipment WAN management protocol. Each data model in TR 069 contains parameters and objects that define many capabilities and functions of a broadband CPE or other devices. This includes their syntax, addressable name, data types, and a normative explanation of how each can be used. The TR-069 is RPC (remote procedure call) based protocol. That means it consists of two unique applications that directly interact with each other via a set of defined methods....

Researchers will lawfully be able to reverse engineer products and consumers can repair their vehicle’s electronics, but the FTC is only allowing the exemptions for a two-year trial run. FTC introduced a similar change back in 2014 when it announced that you can successfully unlock your own smartphone for security research purposes and not suffer the consequences. The same thing has been introduced for cars and smart TVs and hacking them for the sole purpose of learning about security loopholes is definitely allowed....